Florida Opts Out of Medicare Expansion

7/2/2012 4:33PM

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has stepped out as the first governor to say he definitely will opt out of expanding Medicaid under the health-care law in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision last week. Louise Radnofsky has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.

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... the the ... Rex ... says it all ... expanded Medicaid ... well we've got Lisa Radnofsky has been covering this we yet to from Friday only knew some things are coming and Dom ... they came ... and it's now on the Monday so please thank you Brian much ... for joining us again what what's what's going on ham ... when I see say they are expecting some firmer announcements from governors over the weekend about where they alway pasted on the expanded Medicaid program ... I may come ... I'm always heard from Governor Scott is well and several other Republicans is that they really are deftly running on opting out of the program consists of the federal government and said they hoped was unlikely ... and they were confident the states to take the money that was being offered because they said is a very big deal for them ... they summed up his pedigree ... so so this is the expanded Medicaid program which the government said that they would pay for being launched haunts but not totally so this is ... pushing away our money explain how this is gonna play now ... in effect pricing wait billions of dollars up from the federal government the federal government is due to take up a hundred percent of the costs ... of the new enrollees in the program after twenty fourteen ... all the naughty missive costs or anybody else who was previously eligible who suddenly comes in as part of the new wave ... and then after around twenty seventeen the man of my ... kids it would reduce although it never did well in ninety percent ... of the state's however said that with their budget crises even that ten percent was maybe too much to come up with ... and that's the key is in and it's a small the hundred percent initially it's the it's the extra costs down the road and that that the sang basically we've we've just come forth this ... yes know this basic done twenty six and was soo I've been in in in the case then that ... for the Supreme Court said that they can be required to do this is a condition of their continued participation the Medicaid program as we know it ... was a court date in a somewhat surprise decision ... was called that argument and say it was the worst of the government require them to go along with the expansion is said that they can have the choice the choice for governor is in a somewhat difficult position ... and they now I think you have to make a decision that for seven of them ... at least for now the decision is proved to be easy to make ... it to someone happens to to to this if it won the pole twenty six of those those governments that suits the government ... ISI and what we were lost now ... well first of all the Medicaid expansion as part of federal helpful doesn't look anything like what people thought it was when the program was passed in March twenty ten ... some projections go as high as twenty two point three million new people ... expected to enrol as a result of the expanded Medicaid program groundswell point nine million of those people Nisa from numbers ... crunched by the evidence he would use the left leaning think that the twelve point nine million people live in those twenty six states that challenge the federal government in court ... Russell of the sun will fall a lot of people ... now one other things that I might have read is that such that the ... governess Guard says that ... if it's a legal known ... for his state not to participate in mass ... then oversee that will comply with at war so this is in total defiance ... what is not set in and actually the governor's offices prospective suggested that even any way suggesting not complying with his obligations under the law what the court did with eight states the option of choosing not to participate ... in this and they see it as exercising their right not to participate ... there's another aspect of the mold the setting up of exchanges where slightly higher income people ... can shop for insurance policies apply for tax credits worth the cost of premiums ... to fly to Florida government as well as several other Devon thinking that they're not keen on setting this up either ... and the federal government will step in London for the again this is sort of part of the way the law was crafted ... of all that now perhaps the way ... at that the practice of intended it to be used and so it's not outright resistance but they are choosing not to participate ... it's close to what is this stuff ... close ... friend ... well ... it certainly seen by hundreds of one of the ways that they could take down the law landed safely be used primarily by people who don't like the law as a whole and see their participation in it that the courts ok much much more eloquently put thank